Georgia legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Georgia SB146: Health, Local Government, and Property; regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; provide
Status: Signed into law, May 11, 2026
A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Titles 31, 36, and 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, local government, and property, respectively, so as to provide regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disinterment and reinterment of human remains; to provide definitions; to provide statutory construction; to conform cross-references; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.
What the bill says
To amend Titles 31, 36, and 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, local government, and property, respectively, so as to provide regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disinterment and reinterment of human remains; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disturbance of abandoned cemeteries; to provide civil remedies for failures to obtain such permits…
From the introduced text:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED To amend Titles 31, 36, and 44 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, local government, and property, respectively, so as to provide regulations and protections of cemeteries and burial grounds; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disinterment and reinterment of human remains; to revise procedures concerning the issuance of permits for the disturbance of abandoned cemeteries; to provide civil remedies for failures to obtain such permits; to provide for the issuance of permits for the establishment of family burial plots; to provide minimum requirements of family burial plots; to provide civil remedies for the failure to obtain such permits; to provide for a civil action regarding the ability to enter upon land for the purpose of visiting, caring for, or maintaining ancestral grave sites; to provide for a civil action regarding the ability to enter upon land for the purpose of discovering ancestral grave sites and conducting genealogical research in connection with ancestral grave sites; to provide definitions; to provide statutory construction; to conform cross-references; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA: LC 55 0532S PART I SECTION 1-1. Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to health, is …